Originally Posted by aklim

I don't understand why they would either. Is this a group of flies we are talking about or just your exaggeration? Was that a group of flies, as you put it at Guadalcanal? Peleliu? Midway and the Kamikaze attacks? Philippines? The list can go on about the "flies" in question but I think you can get the drift.

But to answer your question in a word, safety. Less US lives lost when you destroy major parts of their country and get them to surrender.